Soundbars
Soundbars feel like they’re relatively new additions to the home entertainment landscape. An inevitable spin-off of our obsession with ever-thinner TV designs that just don’t have enough physical space to hold a half-decent sound system.
In reality, though, basic efforts to build passive left, right and centre speakers into single enclosures have been around for decades. Even if you formalise things and define a ‘true’ soundbar as a horizontally configured enclosure that contains fully powered speakers for multiple channels of sound, then the first example, the wonderfully prosaically named ADA106 from US brand Altec Lansing, went on sale 22 years ago.
In fact, the emergence of soundbars probably became inevitable as far back as the 1980s, when the arrival of the Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro-Logic sound formats ushered in a living room audio revolution as
